Claudio Carvalho After losing his daughter hit by a truck, the troubled psychologist Peter Bower (Adrien Brody) moves to Sidney with his wife Carol (Jenni Baird) and his colleague and friend Dr. Duncan Stewart (Sam Neill) gets strange patients for him. When Dr. Bower discovers a secret about Dr. Stewart and his patients, he travels alone to his hometown False Creek to the house of his estranged father William Bower (George Shevtsov). Haunted by his past, Peter digs his recollections and uncovers a hideous secret from his past. "Backtrack" is an above average ghost story, with a good screenplay. The cast has great performance and the plot is intriguing, entwining family drama with horror and the conclusion is well resolved. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Visões do Passado" ("Visions from the Past")

Nym Meliae This is a nice little horror film. It has elements of the Changeling (1980), a bit of Sixth Sense, a bit of Jacobs Ladder and even a bit of Flatliners, and a bit of a Beautiful Mind... without ever achieving the heights of any of these classic films. It is probably closest to the Changeling (1980) in style... a slow build up that combines mystery and classic ghost story.It makes great use of sound which is the essence of a good horror film. It is let down by the cheap jump scare tactics. It would've been a lot better had they left the horror makeup at home too. It was doing really well on the creepy front when it maintained the human appearance... but when it went into demonic mode it destroyed the best parts of the film.I've given it 8/10 because it is a good film and it does make excellent use of sound... can't stress enough the importance of sound in horror... it is much more important than the visual.Don't expect a slasher movie... those are not true horror... they're thrillers. For me horror needs to be subtle and contain an element of the supernatural, and it needs to make you feel uneasy long after the film. If it doesn't raise the hairs on the back of your arm at least once then it is rubbish. This film ticks the boxes for a decent horror and it is only let down by the cheap shots... and his father is not a very good actor.

rhondasmit Sorry, there are some (mild) spoilers here.The sad thing about this movie is that there was a decent story there, but instead of telling that, everyone focused on building up to a twist, and then overemphasized that part with dark rainy broody moody mumbled boo-o-o-o-ring haunting of a completely unlikable unsympathetic character. The one ghost (the daughter) that maybe should have haunted the protagonist was apparently on vacation. The other ghosts gathered at the office but I don't understand why, when there was a much more obvious and guilty person to haunt. Really, this film could have worked well without all the damn ghosts, that brought nothing to the table except for annoying sound effects and hackneyed movie 'scares' we've seen too many times. The reveal was rushed and downright silly. If ghosts had all that power, then why bother with the first part? And would the ghost of the mother killed in the train wreck really be willing to risk her daughter's life so another ghost can get revenge? I'd predict more infighting among the ghosts... now that could have been a movie! Although many people seem to like Brody's 'acting', it seemed cardboard to me. I could not connect to his supposed grief/guilt, or that he had any relationship with his sleeping wife, or that he had lost a child. None of that resonated. Also, and I realize that it is a trend now, but what is with the 5 minutes plus of credits?

redrobin62-321-207311 Maybe I was in one of my rare good moods, but there could've been worse ways to spend 90 minutes than watching Backtrack. Yes, I did think the movie plodded along slowly, but given what it was supposed to be - an atmospheric thriller - it did that well, so I can't complain.Technically, this film has been made before in some other kind of iteration so the reveal wasn't that surprising. The music carried the movie well as did the acting; it only falls into cliché land with some of the more predictable ghostly elements, something that's very common in Korean films these days.The movie wasn't a waste of time. Is it a must see? Not really; there isn't really anything here you've never seen before. I just thought that watching it didn't feel like a waste of time like a lot of other travesties I've been exposed to.